The fella I carpool with came down with shingles last week. After hearing the horror stories of what he's facing the next few months, I went and got my vaccine yesterday. I urge anyone else who has the dormant chicken pox virus to do the same.

I had shingles 8 years ago. I didn't even know I had chicken pox before. Good thing my wife made me go to the doctors the next day. It wasn't that bad but sometimes when it hit the nerves, it felt like a small electric shock. Probably lasted a few months, still have scars on my back.

Had shingles many years ago. Felt like somebody was sticking hot nails in one side of my face. Was on a Saturday, so went to the emergency room. Didn't know what was going on. The emergency room said I had an insect bite, which caused me to endure intense pain until I went to my own doctor Monday morning. He knew what I had as soon as he saw me sitting in the waiting room. He couldn't believe the emergency room doctor missed that. Would have been very dangerous if it had moved to the eye. Gave me an antiviral called Zovirax I think. That took the pain from unbearable to minor in only a couple of hours. Was lucky I had no scars after. Had a nice conversation with the hospital after they sent me a $2000 bill before insurance deductible.

Hah... :-) Funny part is the car's original color was red, and now the door jam is a rainbow of red, bronze, black and blue. At some point I'll tape it off and spray the jams a uniform black but right now it looks like the rings of an old tree when you open the door. :-)

Not sure about those, but some track tires' internal carcasses might not survive cold temperatures without internal structural damage.

Thanks and those tires are toast. They were well used before being flat spotted during my off course adventure so all they have to do is hold air and roll under the car until the spring when fresh tires and warmer temps prevail. :-)

Sunday - Watched a goodly portion of the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona yesterday afternoon. Lots of fun, to be sure, though I was a bit disappointed at the performance of the new Corvette C8Rs. I suppose it's possible that they might improve overnight and into this morning, but I haven't checked yet.

The number 3 C8.R is looking pretty good this morning. It's 4th right behind two 911s (cars 911 and 912) and a BMW..

My daughter was the drivers physical therapist for the Corvette team today. (Proud papa here :-)

They didn't quite have the pace of the P1 BMW and P2 & P3 Porsches but given it was the first race with a brand new car and they finished just over a minute off the podium after 24 hours, there was lots to be happy about.

My daughter was the drivers physical therapist for the Corvette team today. (Proud papa here :-)

They didn't quite have the pace of the P1 BMW and P2 & P3 Porsches but given it was the first race with a brand new car and they finished just over a minute off the podium after 24 hours, there was lots to be happy about.

It'll be interesting to see if they can improve their chops when Sebring comes around March 21st.

Did NBC Trackpass for the Rolex and have been totally satisfied. It combines NBC network, NBCSN cable and NBC Gold streaming with no commercials. When commercials come on it stays with live track video coverage including in-car, panning track shots and helicopter shots. Tommy Kendall and Justin Bell did live commentary from 3a - 6a and it was so entertaining I couldn't turn it off. Their segment was worth the price of the coverage but all the coverage has been great.